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[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 41: You see, Ace? You got three strikes called the minute they look at you.
at ace, n.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 80: Bascom would have to come across.
at come across, v.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 114: He was in charge here, not some smart-alecky bellboy.
at smart-aleck, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 82: She’s been around, she knows what the score is.
at have been around, v.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 43: He thought enough of this issue to go to bat on it.
at go to bat (v.) under bat, v.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 102: To beat them out of their split.
at beat (someone) out of (v.) under beat, v.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 20: Almost four years of college under his belt, and he ends up hopping bells.
at hop bells (v.) under bell, n.1
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 53: That was her biggest bonehead, checking in [...] without a reservation.
at bonehead, n.1
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 18: Tug had headed a statewide bootleg syndicate.
at bootleg, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 72: If you were in the chips [...] she’d come running.
at in the chips under chip, n.2
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 15: He was too choked up, blind with anger.
at choked, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 34: God only knows how many thousands of dollars they cleaned up.
at clean up, v.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 126: Maybe it sounds like the old craperoo.
at craperoo (n.) under crap, n.1
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 88: If he knew what kind of pure-d, rotten son-of-a-bitch he’d given his name to.
at pure-d, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 119: Risk Fillmore’s [...] calling the house dick.
at dick, n.5
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 123: We couldn’t decide on how to divvy the dough.
at divvy, v.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 78: We knock down a couple of hundred grand.
at knock down, v.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 3: A dream boat — and that’s the way he’d better leave her.
at dreamboat, n.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 82: I’ll even take care of the babe’s ten g’s out of my end.
at end, n.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 126: Maybe it sounds like the old craperoo.
at -eroo, sfx
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 4: The Manton got more than its share of the fast crowd.
at fast, adj.1
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 11: He’d put a freeze on her that would give her pneumonia.
at put a/the freeze on (v.) under freeze, n.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 126: Just don’t pull anything funny.
at funny, adj.2
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 113: To hell with them. To hell with the hotel.
at to hell with...! (excl.) under hell, n.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 94: Living high, but he doesn’t spend a nickel.
at live high (v.) under high, adj.1
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 10: It didn’t make any difference [...] how high-toned they acted.
at high-tone, adj.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 18: I don’t believe there’s ever been a successful hold-up of a major hotel.
at hold-up, n.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 3: A hooker never gets past the room clerk.
at hooker, n.3
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 87: Don’t try to horse-shit me.
at horseshit, v.
[US] J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 70: I saw we’d caught a hot one right away.
at hot one, n.
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